- GEORGE KISHNER. It is doubtful if we of the present generation
fully realize what the old
- soldiers of the great Union army of a million brave men had
to sacrifice "in order that the nation might live, under
God," in the language of Mr. Lincoln's incomparable Gettysburg
speech, and it is also doubtful if we fully appreciate what they
have done for us, leaving us a broad, rich, populous and beautiful
country, so strongly cemented together that there will never
again be any North or South, any East or West, but one splendid
union, the greatest of the nations of the earth, progressing
ever to one golden end, the future of which no man can see or
even dream. Had it not been for the "grand army,"
of which George KISHNER of the village of East Delavan, Walworth
county, was a member, conditions would have been today far different.
We therefore owe to him, and them, all the respect and gratitude
possible.
- Mr. KISHNER was born in Oswego, New York, May 26, 1845.
He is the son of George
- KISHNER and wife, nee SMITH. Both were born in Germany,
from which country they emigrated to the United States when quite
young, locating first at Oswego, New York, then they moved to
Chicago where the mother of the subject died. The father subsequently
moved to Wisconsin, and located in the town of Janesville, where
he was interested in a meat house, also a similar business at
Kenosha and Geneva, and finally settled in East Delavan, and
here bought a farm of sixty-eight acres which he operated until
his death in 1891, having become very well established here.
- Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. George KISHNER, Sr.,
three of whom are deceased;
- those now living are, Charles, Edward, Fred, James, Emma
and George, of this review.
- George KISHNER, Jr., received his education in the public
schools of Janesville, Wisconsin, and
- he helped his father with his work when growing to manhood.
He now lives in East Delavan. He was never married.
- Politically, the subject is a Republican, but he has never
been active in political affairs. In religious
- matters he is a member of the Episcopal church.
- The subject enlisted in the Forty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer
Infantry, under Captain CHENEY, on
- February 8, 1865, and he served very faithfully during the
war.
-
- Taken from "The History of Walworth County, Wisconsin,
Vol. II" by Albert Clayton Beckwith, (c)1912, pp. 1286-1287.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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